A moment in history.

Ronald White and Mary Perry are still in contact. I have not been in contact with Joe Bowser for many, many years. White and Perry are good friends of mines and we communicate on the regular.

Ronald White for 4th Vice President NC NAACP State Conference of Branches

by Curmilus Dancy IIA year ago or maybe a little more I had the opportunity to tune into a broadcast NAACP NOW on Channel 17 whereby North Carolina NAACPPresident White, Ms. Mary Perry, Mr. Joe Bowser and a couple of more Presidents were discussing NAACP related issues. I believe the main topic was about gangs in North Carolina. I was very impressed with many of them and I looked their contact information up on the NAACPwebsite. White had a website with much much information on it and I read over some of the things he was involved in. UPS was a major case that he was working on along with many, many others. I made contact with White. I sent an email to White and he contacted me early that Monday morning after the Sunday’s show as I was on the way to work. I have found brother White to be true to the cause and about making a difference. This is from what I have seen and the different places I have been in his presence in the short time I have come in contact with him. Because of what I know about White and his dedication to the mission of the NAACP I have no doubt that he will continue to do good works. I trust that others will join me and support White so that he can continue to serve as 4th Vice President of the North Carolina State Conference of Branches during the weekend of October 6 – 8 when the election of officers will take place.

We just received information that the School Board is trying to push the re-zoning agenda through at an accelerated pace and the Planning Commission has turned their recommendations back to the City Council instead of the six to eight weeks that was originally scheduled for. It went back in six days.

The meeting is set for March 17 at 1:00 PM at 222 Hargett St. (the same place as last time). We have been told that we need to send as many emails to the City Council members as possible and to show up to this meeting in droves in opposition. They schedule these things so most working people cannot attend, and they do that for a reason!

The City Council members, that we may have a chance in convincing is ‘Koopman, Crowder, Stevens and West.’ If we can concentrate on them, and the others as well, we possibly can sway their votes. I know that West is sympathetic towards racial issues and Koopman, leans towards preservation issues, I have not heard of what the others lean towards, but, we need to write to them all and make it as brief as possible, but as many emails as possible. We also need to show up. Hopefully, these people on the City Council will lend a sympathetic ear to our pleas. We have been ‘unheard’ for sometime’

Please call them as well, if you can, but we need a joint effort to make an impact. I have enclosed their link so you can have their emails accessible. Please feel free to contact me if you need to, I will try and help with anything you need as best as I can.